Wednesday, September 29, 2010Chris Sheehan - Managing Director, CommonAngels
As a group of over 65 angel investors, we can be fairly diverse in our backgrounds, perspectives and how we each approach angel investing. So I thought it would be fun and maybe a bit insightful to share some perspectives from individuals in our group. Recently I sat down with Peter Bleleyben...
Thursday, August 26, 2010Michelle Hipwood - Executive Director, The Capital Network
This is a puzzling dilemma for many entrepreneurs looking to finance their start-up in today’s economic environment. TCN recently hosted an expert lunch with sponsor Silicon Valley Bank around this topic, covering the basics of venture debt financing. Brad Holt, a Relationship Manager at SVB, was the...
Thursday, August 19, 2010Matthew Mamet - Head of Customer Development, EditMe
Here’s another take on a web startup – one that comes with a 7,000 sq ft storage facility and a fleet of delivery trucks. Meet Fetch Storage. Ok, it’s not really a web startup. As cofounder Jesse Mastro puts it, the team at Fetch is seeking to bring new technology, like personal online inventory...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010Ray Colwell - VP of National and Direct Sales, Collective
When building your sales plan at a start up these 3 things will contribute to your success. 1. Plan for the worse - As glass half opened people we tend to think we can do anything. The reality is much of what we do is out of our control. Product releases, market acceptance, economy...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010Steve Green - Vice President of Field Sales, Brightcove
Building out the sales plan in a startup is always difficult...you have a small client base and very little predictability in your deal sizes and sales cycles. Here are a few tips for having success early in a growing company: 1. Get in front of Prospects - Early and Often! Nothing is more important...
Friday, August 6, 2010Sachin Agarwal - Director of Marketing, Blueleaf.com
Blueleaf is building the world’s first truly personal financial planning platform. It’s a complex product with a lot of features to meet all the different problems that our customer discovery has shown that people want. Here are ten concrete things we’re doing to get 10,000 sign ups before we even launch...
Thursday, August 5, 2010Matthew Mamet - Head of Customer Development, EditMe
Everyone’s excited about new mobile applications these days, and that includes me. After covering the guys at Peekaboo Mobile earlier this spring, I was happy to spend time with Jacqueline Thong, CoFounder and CEO of UbiqiHealth, developers of mobile and web based tools for patients with chronic...
Monday, July 26, 2010Chris Sheehan - Managing Director, CommonAngels
I recently caught up with Andy Payne to chat about what we are seeing in the internet startup world around Boston. Andy has been around the Boston scene for a long time – being one of the co-founders of Open Market, Revenio, and FanSnap. He is an adviser to Care.com and Kayak, and on the board...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010Matthew Mamet - Head of Customer Development, EditMe
Baydin is a local startup building plugins to improve the way we use email. A former TechStars graduate, Baydin has launched a few different products to make using email better in MS Outlook - Unsearch, which won this year's Enterprise 2.0 Launchpad competition , and Boomerang, the "email snooze...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010Brian Balfour - Co-Founder and VP of Marketing, Viximo
This week's topic on Fizzlosophy is: What are 3 points of advice for first time entrepreneurs raising venture capital? Today's guest contributor is Brian Balfour. Brian is a Co-Founder of Viximo, a social gaming platform company based in Cambridge. Viximo is funded by Sigma Partners...
